Rule 2The World wont care about your self-esteem. The World will expect you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself.

Rule 3You will not make £60,000. a year right out of high school. You wont be Vice-President with a car phone until you earn both.

Rule 4If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss.

Rule 5Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different work for burger flipping; they called it opportunity.

Rule 6 If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

Rule 7Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parents’ generation, try delousing your closet in your own room.

Rule 8Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they’ll give you chances as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This does not bear the slightest resemblance to anything in real life.

Rule 9Life is not divided into terms. You do not get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping your find yourself. Do that on your own time.

Rule 10Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

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